Destroyers are bad for the game

[Zaydin]

Why? Because they discourage aggression. I've seen so many pushes grind to a halt because a destroyer was spotted nearby and no one wants to get ambushed by a DD hiding in stealth with their reality-defying stealth fields and getting dev struck before they have a chance to react.

In CV matches, they aren't so bad since a carrier can light them up for the team and force a DD to retreat, but without a carrier and with little or no radar, destroyers are unholy terrors with little counter-play for other ships unless the DD makes a mistake.

Case in point: I had a match in my Oland a week or two ago and I stalked an Ohio the entire game, peppering him with torpedoes and staying out of detection range and there wasn't a single thing he could do to stop me. Luck only lasts so long and even with the Olands torpedoes being as weak as they are, he still succumbed to attrition and had no radar support or air support to spot me and could do nothing to me.

[thebigblue]

10 minutes ago, Zaydin said:

Why? Because they discourage aggression. I've seen so many pushes grind to a halt because a destroyer was spotted nearby and no one wants to get ambushed by a DD hiding in stealth with their reality-defying stealth fields and getting dev struck before they have a chance to react.

In CV matches, they aren't so bad since a carrier can light them up for the team and force a DD to retreat, but without a carrier and with little or no radar, destroyers are unholy terrors with little counter-play for other ships unless the DD makes a mistake.

I wish there was an opt out button for no destroyer matches. They are broken and can never be made to fit. They don't even use large caliber guns and rely on torpedos. There is no counterplay because they shoot their weapons beyond site and can't be hit easily. They have broken mechanics that WarGaming has fiddled with for years and just cannot accept the fact they were wrong and inept and wasted all those resources trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Unlimited torpedos with unrealistic reload speeds. A targeting computer built in. That's  a sanctioned hack if ever. Destroyers are too powerful and keep getting gimmicks to make them more overpowered like smoke, radar, hydro and even good AA on some. Why bother player cruisers? Destroyers are unfun to play against. WarGaming hates battleship players obviously. This game is dying and destroyers are killing it. Nobody wants them in the game. I doubt wows survives the next 3 days.

[kagero__]

Yeah, I don’t think this game will make it out of open beta if they don’t get rid of destroyers. They’re like Zerglings, only worse. Fix it, WG, or I won’t spend another dime! Again, I mean.

[Jagdpanzer131]

4 minutes ago, thebigblue said:

I wish there was an opt out button for no destroyer matches. They are broken and can never be made to fit. They don't even use large caliber guns and rely on torpedos. There is no counterplay because they shoot their weapons beyond site and can't be hit easily. They are unfun to play against. WarGaming hates battleship players obviously. This game is dying. I doubt it survives the next 3 days.

Its not like the hit rate of torpedoes is low or anything....

[NobodyLikesCvs]

TLDR: people don't know how to counterplay dds, therefore , dds are bad for the game.

[tcbaker777]

threads like these are bad for the game, why? because theyre idiotic and have no solutions to, what the OP thinks, is the problem

[neptunes_wrath]

[CaptainKaitoGhost]

This thread absolutely screams "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, AND NOBODY SHOULD EVER LISTEN TO A SINGLE THING I SAY!"

[neptunes_wrath]

11 minutes ago, thebigblue said:

I wish there was an opt out button for no destroyer matches. They are broken and can never be made to fit. They don't even use large caliber guns and rely on torpedos. There is no counterplay because they shoot their weapons beyond site and can't be hit easily. They have broken mechanics that WarGaming has fiddled with for years and just cannot accept the fact they were wrong and inept and wasted all those resources trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Unlimited torpedos with unrealistic reload speeds. A targeting computer built in. That's  a sanctioned hack if ever. Destroyers are too powerful and keep getting gimmicks to make them more overpowered like smoke, radar, hydro and even good AA on some. Why bother player cruisers? Destroyers are unfun to play against. WarGaming hates battleship players obviously. This game is dying and destroyers are killing it. Nobody wants them in the game. I doubt wows survives the next 3 days.

[neptunes_wrath]

2 minutes ago, CaptainKaitoGhost said:

This thread absolutely screams "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, AND NOBODY SHOULD EVER LISTEN TO A SINGLE THING I SAY!"

 

[tcbaker777]

1 minute ago, neptunes_wrath said:

your profile pic basically sums up my face whenever i come onto the forums and see a thread like this, just pure disappointment

[kishan99]

I actually cannot tell if this thread is a joke.  No solutions the OP posted and frankly, I think the quite opposite.  

If anything, dd limit should be 2-3 per team.  4-5 is too much to handle. 

[Soviet_Bagutte]

15 minutes ago, Zaydin said:

Why? Because they discourage aggression. I've seen so many pushes grind to a halt because a destroyer was spotted nearby and no one wants to get ambushed by a DD hiding in stealth with their reality-defying stealth fields and getting dev struck before they have a chance to react.

In CV matches, they aren't so bad since a carrier can light them up for the team and force a DD to retreat, but without a carrier and with little or no radar, destroyers are unholy terrors with little counter-play for other ships unless the DD makes a mistake.

Case in point: I had a match in my Oland a week or two ago and I stalked an Ohio the entire game, peppering him with torpedoes and staying out of detection range and there wasn't a single thing he could do to stop me. Luck only lasts so long and even with the Olands torpedoes being as weak as they are, he still succumbed to attrition and had no radar support or air support to spot me and could do nothing to me.

Agreed, DDs are OP cancer that should be removed from the game, but, lets talk about the real broken class... BBs. I mean not only are they the MOST. SURVIVABLE. CLASS but they also have literally the most firepower. Every time I play my cruisers and see a battleship, I curse WG and their stupid decisions for catering to BBabies ( see what I did there?!? ) and thus with those OP guns and that trooooll armour, there is literally 0 things I can do in my cruiser except wait for BB-sama to finish me off with his big, meaty, overpen guns. OPEN LETTER TO WARGAMING: BBs are such a broken class having literally 0 counterplay along with DDs. Please remove them and DDs from the game to improve the overall experience. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[Panama_Z28]

i hope  there are more posts lke this, we need more  complaints about destroyers,

eventually we will get PT boats, you know PT109 stuff,  

give them  limited torps and mediocre guns so it doesn't screw the play and theres your counter to  DD,  bet on it !!

that would be great hey !!   any thoughts ?

 

panama

[Falls_USMC]

This is satire, right? 

Right? 

[neptunes_wrath]

1 minute ago, panamaz28 said:

i hope  there are more posts lke this, we need more  complaints about destroyers,

eventually we will get PT boats, you know PT109 stuff,  

give them  limited torps and mediocre guns so it doesn't screw the play and theres your counter to  DD,  bet on it !!

that would be great hey !!   any thoughts ?

 

panama

[IfYouSeeKhaos]

6 minutes ago, NobodyLikesCvs said:

TLDR: people don't know how to counterplay dds, therefore , dds are bad for the game.

Hey buddy...stick to your player name & stay out of non CV threads OK :-)

& as for WG...the BATTLE button is OP...please nerf.

[neptunes_wrath]

Just now, Falls_USMC said:

This is satire, right? 

Right? 

[Jagdpanzer131]

Its getting harder to tell if posts are serious anymore.

[Zaydin]

11 minutes ago, CaptainKaitoGhost said:

This thread absolutely screams "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, AND NOBODY SHOULD EVER LISTEN TO A SINGLE THING I SAY!"

Can't refute the message so you attack the messenger instead.

[neptunes_wrath]

1 minute ago, Zaydin said:

Can't refute the message so you attack the messenger instead.

[NobodyLikesCvs]

4 minutes ago, IfYouSeeKhaos said:

Hey buddy...stick to your player name & stay out of non CV threads OK :-)

& as for WG...the BATTLE button is OP...please nerf.

mate, stick to your clan name and stay out of PVP threads, OK :-)

[Cicero__]

If this is a joke, i'm laughing.

If it's serious, then...well....

[JediMasterDraco]

I’m almost positive this thread is meant to parody the typical CV-Whine Thread.

[neptunes_wrath]

Just now, Quantumphysics333 said:

If this is a joke, i'm laughing.

If it's serious, then...well....

I honestly think it is both.... the OP might just actually BE serious.... BLUE... well I think he is too... the rest of us... well, we all seem bored tonight so we are just here for the fun,,, and I am here for MEMEs...